William Kristol The crowing by the Obama administration over getting 7 million people to sign up for mandatory health insurance—with some portion actually paying for it—will soon fade. The big picture will remain clear: Obamacare isn’t working. And Americans, who didn’t like Obamacare when the Democrats passed it four years ago, don’t like it now, don’t want it to remain, and doubt it can be fixed. But they also don’t much want to go back to the pre-Obamacare world. According to Real Clear Politics, a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll of registered voters was the 111th consecutive poll to find more opposition to Obamacare than support for it.
Philadelphia magazine - Page 2 Early on, during my walks around northern Fairmount, I’m surprised by a couple of things. One is the international flavor. On a warm Sunday in October, I buttonhole a woman I’ll call Anna, a tall, slim, dark-haired beauty from Moscow getting out of her BMW on an alley just south of Girard College. Anna goes to a local law school, works downtown at a law firm, and proceeds to let me have it when we start talking about race in her neighborhood. Rester se battre Mourir au champ d’honneur ne devrait pas être un but, mais juste un effet indésirable d’un combat pour une grande cause.Par DoM P. À la suite de mon article que Contrepoints a publié le 18 avril dernier, j’ai assez souvent entendu dire que quitter la France pour les raisons mentionnées pouvait être lâche et qu’il fallait au contraire rester et se battre. Cette double affirmation m’a semblé doublement fallacieuse et voici pourquoi. Tout d’abord quitter un pays en perdition n’a rien de lâche. Si l’on estime que rien de ce qui pourrait être fait de l’intérieur pour redresser la situation ne peut également l’être de l’extérieur, alors l’exil consiste simplement à se mettre à l’abri, et n’est pas moins lâche que de refuser de sauter du pont dès que quelqu’un vous lance « Chiche ! ».
Thomas Sowell - Conservative Columnist and Political Commentator2010 Column Archive2007 Column Archive Thomas Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem. As with many others in his neighborhood, Thomas Sowell left home early and did not finish high school. The next few years were difficult ones, but eventually he joined the Marine Corps and became a photographer in the Korean War. After leaving the service, Thomas Sowell entered Harvard University, worked a part-time job as a photographer and studied the science that would become his passion and profession: economics. After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard University (1958), Thomas Sowell went on to receive his master's in economics from Columbia University (1959) and a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago (1968).
Controversial Article Published In Local Magazine Has Mayor Nutter Asking For Investigation Get Breaking News First Receive News, Politics, and Entertainment Headlines Each Morning. Sign Up By Mike Dougherty PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A controversial article published in Philadelphia Magazine this month has the attention of the Nutter Administration.
Philadelphia Magazine editor faces critics on race article In his piece, Huber wrote: "We need to bridge the conversational divide so that there are no longer two private dialogues in Philadelphia - white people talking to other whites, and black people to blacks - but a city in which it is OK to speak openly about race." The story, however, was criticized as dwelling on negative experiences that whites had with blacks that often fit into racial stereotypes. In a scathing letter, Mayor Nutter last week requested that the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission consider whether the magazine and Huber deserved to be rebuked for the article. Nutter said Huber ignored positive anecdotes "to feed his own misguided perception" that African Americans are "lazy, shiftless, irresponsible, and largely criminal." Jones ripped Philadelphia Magazine for what he said was the publication's history of racial insensitivity - a contention Nutter also raised in his letter. "This is the most infuriating thing about it," Jones said.
Towson U. Student Patrol Sparks Racism Charges A plan to have unarmed students patrolling the campus of Towson University on foot has sparked accusations of racism. The planned patrols are the brainchild of senior Mathew Heimbach, who also happens to head a group called the White Student Union. Heimbach has written on his blog that Towson is experiencing a “black crime wave” with “black predators” preying on the “white majority student body.” "Just like I wouldn't be offended if, when you talk about serial killers, the average serial killer is a blue-collar, educated white male," Heimbach told News4's Jim Rosenfield. "It doesn't offend me to be able to talk about the facts," Heimbach said.
White Student Union Claims Towson Has Black-On-White Crime Problem Get Breaking News First Receive News, Politics, and Entertainment Headlines Each Morning. Sign Up TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — A student known for causing a bit of controversy on the campus of Towson University is now taking the law into his own hands in an effort to tackle what he believes to be a growing problem of black-on-white crime around campus. Doug Gottlieb: CBS analyst apologizes after telling panel he's there 'to bring white man's perspective' By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press Published: 05:41 GMT, 29 March 2013 | Updated: 08:47 GMT, 29 March 2013 CBS analyst Doug Gottlieb got coverage of the NCAA tournament's Sweet 16 off to an awkward start last night as he joked that he was there to bring the 'white man's perspective' to the network's pregame show. Gottlieb made the remark during a pregame segment before the Marquette-Miami game on a panel with Greg Gumbel, Greg Anthony, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley - who are all black. Sitting in the middle, Gottlieb said: 'I don't know why you guys ask me, I'm just here to bring diversity to this set, give kind of the white man's perspective,' he said during the show. Scroll down for video
Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American Updated: Sirota responds to critics of this piece over here. As we now move into the official Political Aftermath period of the Boston bombing — the period that will determine the long-term legislative fallout of the atrocity — the dynamics of privilege will undoubtedly influence the nation’s collective reaction to the attacks. That’s because privilege tends to determine: 1) which groups are — and are not — collectively denigrated or targeted for the unlawful actions of individuals; and 2) how big and politically game-changing the overall reaction ends up being.
Dr. Ben Carson: ‘We’re Being Crucified by Political Correctness’ Dr. Ben Carson. (AP) (CNSNews.com) – Presidential Medal of Freedom winner Dr. Texas School Counselor Fired After Insane Facebook Post: Whites “Will Soon Be Wiped From the Earth. Lol.” After the fertilizer plant explosion in Texas, Karon Wright apparently became angry about some of the comments other people on Facebook made about Barack Obama. Then Wright, who was a counselor at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Texas, unwisely wrote the following. “Its amazing how the “whites” get angry when Obama speaks. Oh well…its most of the whites who is getting blown away. So they will soon be wiped from the earth.
School's 'Redneck Day' sparks anger PHOENIX -- When members of the student council at an Arizona high school organized a schoolwide "Redneck Day" and encouraged classmates to dress — and spoof — accordingly, they hoped to build school spirit leading up to prom week. Instead, "Redneck Day" at Queen Creek High School has angered African-Americans and civil-rights leaders and touched off a debate about free speech, social stereotypes and good taste. Tom Lindsey, superintendent of the Queen Creek Unified School District, said the only intent of Wednesday's event was to satirize the A&E reality TV show "Duck Dynasty," which follows a family of duck hunters and entrepreneurs from West Monroe, La. But some students and their family members weren't amused. Among them: the Rev.
Haters Gonna Hate, As Shown On A Map : Code Switch Note: This post contains strong language, including racial and ethnic slurs. Geography professor Monica Stephens has spent a lot of time putting haters on the map . Over at Humboldt State University in California where she is a professor, Stephens and a team of undergraduate students spent a year sorting through racial slurs on Twitter by location. And then she mapped them. That meant searching for words like "nigger" and "fag" and "honkey." Stephens had a team of undergraduate students who sifted through 150,000 negative tweets.